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Psychology Quotes
"Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment."
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"Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass."
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"There was a closet somewhere inside me. Every day I went near that just to open the door and see all the masks of my face that I hid there.To select one which isn't me but still would look like me, which would hide me from the world in a better way. Day after day I stored so many masks in that closet that one day I searched for my real face in it and it wasn't there. I never understood whether I lost it or I forgot how it looked like, the more I searched the most lost I felt."
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"The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting."
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"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
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"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."
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"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
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"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?"
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"In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me."
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"Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare."
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"If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected."
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"It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery."
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"Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer."
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"Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
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"For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
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"When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more."
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence"."
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"Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that will actually lurk in the bushes, play your mind, and pounce on you when you are at our most vulnerable state. Envy is the root of all evil, in all men and women, everywhere. They're not going to leave your side, but for reasons that you wouldn't like!"
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"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
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"She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere."
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"Psychology is action not thinking about oneself."
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"When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless."
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"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!"
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"I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man."
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"That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored."
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"I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."
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"People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable."
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"An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant."
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"The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety."
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"You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out-now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?"
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"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
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"Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him."
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"The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind."
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"Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing."
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"When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you."
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"A staggering amount of people blame their lives for their miseries, but little do they know that one's repeated interpretations of one's life create one's constant feelings."
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"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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"Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts."
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"Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught."
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
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"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
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"Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology."
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"No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends is based. I don't think that matters much provided that you can persuade him to postpone any open acknowledge of the fact, and this, with the aid of shame, pride, modesty and vanity, will be easy to do. As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent."
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"The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture."
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"Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you'll have of that situation in the long run."
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"If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface."
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"I have one problem, I don't hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."
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